Flowers, Rico Lampkin and Jason Soudemire, who have also pled guilty, admitted to filing more than 100 tax returns containing false statements of income and withholding. [read post]

Jackson said the government had failed to make a convincing case showing the messages between White House aide Robert Blair and Office of Management and Budget official Michael Duffey were eligible for protection under legal privileges protecting the development of presidential advice or decisions made by other government officials. [read post]